I Was Really Bad At Story Structure… Here’s What Changed — Adam Davis

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Film Courage: In our 2019 interview you said you were weak with story structure. I’m wondering how you feel about this now?

Adam Davis, Author/Filmmaker/Screenwriter: I did say that and I definitely felt that at the time. I think it was important for me to understand that based on my first film Broken Ceiling and the reception to it.

I was like I’m good with character interactions. I’m good with dialogue but I think the story structure maybe wasn’t fully there so that’s something that I set out to really work on. It took a lot of work.

I never went to film school and it was all sort of self-taught. It was at that point (post 2020) where I was like I should probably take at least a course. I’ve read a lot of books but let me get some actual instruction and try to figure that out.

I took a UCLA extension course which was super helpful.